Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.13% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377941
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1973  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Race condition in the GetStaticInstance function in the WebRTC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via unspecified vectors.

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